Adaptive Blur

Adaptive Blur

This tool is designed for blurring none uniform colour areas inside the colour transition boundaries in the image. It works on greyscale and colour images.
The blurring gives the impression that an image is slightly «out of focus».
The Adaptive Blur filter, in contrast to the Blur filter, tries to recognize the colour transition boundaries in the image and leave them unchanged, without smoothing.

The setting of the radius value determines the depth (in pixels) of the filter effect on the colour area.

To implement the Adaptive Blur

1. Start the command Adaptive Blur from the Filters menu.
2. Type values from 0.1 to 10.0 in the Radius to specify the image adaptive blurring degree. The bigger the radius, the stronger the blurring effect.
3. Click Apply.